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A bucket of fish can be obtained by using a water bucket on any fish mob. The fish bucket obtained will correspond to the fish picked up. In the Bedrock Edition, an empty bucket can also be used to obtain a fish bucket.[Bedrock Edition only]

Pressing use with a bucket of fish will place a water source block, and spawn the corresponding fish back into the world, leaving an empty bucket in the player's inventory. For buckets of tropical fish, the patterns and color of the tropical fish are remembered and stored in the bucket. Placing a bucket of fish in the Nether will cause the same particles to appear that generate when a normal water bucket is placed in the Nether, and the fish mob will be spawned alone.

In Bedrock Edition, tropical fish also have assigned names which can be seen after capture, so that the buckets are given names like "Bucket of Plum Blockfish", "Bucket of Sky-Orange Snooper" or "Bucket of Orange-Lime Dasher". Their colors are mostly named according to the colored block names, though with a few exceptions:

White

Orange

Magenta

Sky

Yellow

Lime

Rose

Gray

Silver

Teal

Plum

Blue

Brown

Green

Red

The base color will come first, and if the pattern color is different, it will come after that. Lastly, the fish bucket will be given a name according to the shape and pattern of the fish:

Flopper

Glitter

Betty

Stripey

Blockfish

Clayfish

Kob

Snooper

Brinely

SunStreak

Dasher

Spotty

Some tropical fish don't follow the normal naming system, and instead reference real-life fish species. Apart from these names, these types of fish aren't different from regular tropical fish in terms of design or behavior.

These varieties are:

Name

Type

Anemone

Orange-Gray Stripey

Black Tang

Gray Flopper

Blue Dory

Gray-Sky SunStreak

Butterfly Fish

White-Gray Brinely

Cichlid

Blue-Gray SunStreak

Clownfish

Orange-White Kob

Cotton Candy Betta

Rose-Sky Spotty

Dottyback

Plum-Yellow Blockfish

Emperor Red Snapper

White-Red Clayfish

Goatfish

White-Yellow Spotty

Moorish Idol

White-Gray Glitter

Ornate Butterfly

White-Orange Clayfish

Parrotfish

Teal-Rose Dasher

Queen Angel Fish

Lime-Sky Brinely

Red Cichlid

Red-White Betty

Red Lipped Blenny

Gray-Red Snooper

Red Snapper

Red-White Blockfish

Threadfin

White-Yellow Flopper

Tomato Clown

Red-White SunStreak }}

Triggerfish

Gray-White SunStreak }}

Yellowtail Parrot

Teal-Yellow Dasher }}

Yellow Tang

Yellow Stripey

A bucket of tropical fish pulled out of the Creative inventory will spawn random tropical fish when used.

When a water bucket is transformed into a bucket of fish, it will actually push the bucket texture down one pixel. According to Dinnerbone, Jappa says this is due to the "weight of the fish."[2]

Buckets of tropical fish will always appear to contain an orange-white kob, regardless of whatever fish is actually inside.[3]

Since empty buckets can be used to capture fish on the Bedrock edition, it is possible to create an infinite amount of water source blocks simply by catching a fish mob with a bucket and continuely placing and re-capturing the mob.

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